I Am Not Your Negro - A Docalogue

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film.James Baldwin's writing is intensely relevant to contemporary politics and culture, and Peck's strategies for representing him and conveying his work in I Am Not Your Negro (2016) raise important questions about how documentary can bring the work of a complex thinker like Baldwin to a broader public. By combining five distinct perspectives on a single documentary film, this book offers different critical approaches to the same media object, acting both as an intensive scholarly treatment of a film and as a guide for how to analyze, theorize, and contextualize a documentary.Undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars of film and media studies, communication studies, African American studies, and gender and sexuality studies will find this book extremely useful in understanding the significance of this film and the ways in which it offers insight into not only Baldwin and his writings but also wider historical and contemporary realities.

List of contents

Introduction: the timeliness of I Am Not Your Negro; 1. I Am Not Your Negro's queer poetics of identity and omission; 2. James Baldwin's embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality; 3. "Some One of Us Should Have Been There with Her": gender, race, and sexuality in I Am Not Your Negro and contemporary Black experimental documentary; 4. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) and I Am Not Your Negro (2016) as historicist documentaries; 5. Techniques for truth-telling from Haitian Corner to I Am Not Your Negro

Summary

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film.

Product details

• Authors: Jaimie (University of California Baron, Jaimie Fuhs Baron
• Assisted by: Jaimie Baron (Editor), Baron Jaimie (Editor), Kristen Fuhs (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780367523121
• ISBN: 978-0-367-52312-1
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Docalogue
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LAW / Civil Rights, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, Humanities, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism